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News: RECRUITMENT NOW CLOSED: Food Legacy programme recruits for coordinator role

Food Legacy is recruiting for a coordinator role, to run the programme seeking to promote healthy and sustainable food in the catering and events sectors, inspired by the London 2012 Food Vision.
Food Legacy | Wednesday 9 November 2011

Blog: Community Building: 11 resources for developing thriving local food movements

What do our local areas need in place to resource and amplify public action on healthy and sustainable food? Vera Zakharov envisions a dynamic food landscape that can catalyse grassroots initiatives and support food citizens.
Sustainable Food Places | Wednesday 8 July 2020

Reports: Kicking Out Junk Food: sports sponsorship and a better deal for children's health

The junk food industry is hijacking sport and children's health, according to Children's Food Campaign and Food Active.
Children's Food Campaign | Wednesday 24 November 2021

Page: Fringe Farming - the potential for peri-urban food growing

A project that aims to boost agroecological food production at the edge of UK cities, working in partnership with practitioners and researchers to greatly increase access to land for socially and ecologically beneficial farming close to urban communities. An easy way to comprehend the benefits of fringe farming is by making simple calculations for up-scaling existing peri-urban market gardens. This can tell us the impressive amount of fresh fruit and vegetables, financial revenue and jobs that would be generated as a result of making just 1% of England’s peri-urban land productive.
Sustainable Farming Campaign

Article: Edible Rotherhithe supports children develop food growing skills

Edible Rotherhithe is a community food growing project based at Surrey Square School in South East London. It was set up by Christina Wheatley who wanted to support children to develop food growing skills and knowledge of where food comes from.
London Food Link | Wednesday 5 May 2021

News: Health campaigners call for next London Mayor to improve London’s food

Campaigners are challenging all of the candidates for the 2016 London Mayoral elections to say what they would do to make London’s food systems healthier and better for the environment.
London Food Link | Tuesday 24 November 2015

News: Food businesses offered free online sustainable assessment tool

F3, the local food consultants are offering food businesses a free online self assessment tool. The 'Sustainable Business Review' helps food enterprises identify how they meet sustainability criteria. F3 hope businesses will take advantage of the new tool and use it to help them market their products more successfully.
Sustain | Thursday 26 March 2015

News: Australian Food For Thought Festival Celebrating its 5th Year in 2020

The Food for Thought Festival will once again bring together diverse communities across the Great Southern to celebrate and showcase local food in a fun and educational way, promoting sustainable, healthy, vibrant and democratic food systems.
Sustainable Food | Thursday 5 December 2019

News: UK household food bills set to go up by £407 in 2022 due to climate change, oil and gas prices

In September 2022 UK food price inflation rose above 14%, the biggest increase on record. Furthermore, UK food security is being threatened by a combination of extreme weather, higher costs for energy and other inputs, and British farmers struggling to find workers. Some are reportedly choosing not to plant crops to save money, thereby reducing UK food production.
Climate Change and Nature | Friday 21 October 2022

Blog: How to fix our food supply chain - insights from EFRA Select Committee Inquiry

In the recent evidence session at the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee Inquiry into fairness in the food supply chain, Vicki Hird, representing Sustain on the panel, provided valuable insights into the challenges and vulnerabilities within the country's food supply chain.
Sustain | Wednesday 15 November 2023